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‘Don’t scratch an itching dog’

bhalababy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:04:50 +0000

An expression I heard used when I investigated having the rust scraped out of my car – because once you start scratching, you have to keep on going. So what happens when you start to itch? Do you scratch or do you let it lie? Or do you just sell the damn car? document.getElementById("post-789-blankimage").onload(); No related posts. No related posts.

Relation-shapes

bhalababy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:09:28 +0000

A relationship is point to point – a three-dimensional line that grows or shrinks according to moods and swings. Add a baby and you add another line. You have a triangle: a love triangle. There is no greater or more complex love triangle than the one created by having a baby. Someone is always left out [...] Related posts:

A Palindrome

Rekindling the nappy debate

bhalababy — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:09:33 +0000

There are some great innovations going on in the nappy arena: Nature Babycare, designed by a Swedish mum who can’t even sell them in Sweden; Nature Boy and Girl, based on same; Seventh Generation and gDiaper, to name a few. These new innovations are all fabulous, trendy and partly nature friendly … Most claim to be compostable [...] Related posts:

CONTAINED

Defining benchmarks

bhalababy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:48:19 +0000

I sometimes disagree with my mother-in-law because … well, just because she is my mother-in-law and weren’t they put on this earth to create a bit of conflict in an otherwise happy home environment? But sometimes I disagree with her because – despite her claiming to have been around the block often enough to know [...] Related posts:

Transcend Contradiction

Bible Study?

bhalababy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:10:33 +0000

The mother of a friend of my child’s told me that her daughter sat down to dinner one evening, held hands around the table and asked everyone if they would like to say gross. A few weeks later my child came home and wanted to discuss God. He is learning about religion at the local [...] Related posts:

Peddling Severed Parts

A-nother

bhalababy — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:05:46 +0000

I realise I have spoken plenty about that desperate need to procreate but then there is that cautious desire to provide your child with a sibling. Should I, shouldn’t I? What if I do, what if I don’t? … and all the other what ifs. It’s a tough decision that never gets any easier. The only [...] No related posts.

Dirt is ok … even if I have got OCD

bhalababy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:13:58 +0000

My child has just run past me with his mouth smeared with the remains of a strawberry Solero ice cream and I didn’t even flinch. … and he stayed like that till bath time. There was a time when I would look at the parents of children with messy faces and recoil. I would wonder why parents [...] No related posts.

Living up to expectations

bhalababy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:22:03 +0000

It is the parent who spends less time with the child who tends to back down as soon as the child whimpers … the parent who goes to work who doesn’t force the child to do what they are perfectly capable of doing. No related posts.

Some toys should be locked away

bhalababy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:22:17 +0000

A very long time ago I was embarrassed by a child I once looked after. She was four at the time and I was nineteen and we were playing hairdressers in her room … as one does … when she told me that her daddy was in love with me but he couldn’t marry me [...] No related posts.

Feeling pensive

bhalababy — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:30:46 +0000

I remember walking to school, the park, piano lessons. Walking slowly in the hopes that each slow step would make me another minute late. It didn’t of course – I was way too close to all those places for a slow walk to make much of a difference. Or maybe punctuality was inherited. I would [...] Related posts: